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6.20.2011

“Fashion Week Panama 2011: More Awesome News”

Leanne Marshall, winner of the 5th season of Project Runway US. also forms part of the group of the international designers that will show their creations in the most expected fashionable event of the year: FASHION WEEK PANAMA 2011. Since she was 12 years old, she knew that se wanted to be a fashion designer, and since then she started to create her own dresses and proposed her ballet teachers sketches for the costumes of the functions in which she participated. She was an outstanding student, that studied through a scholarship at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in San Francisco US. Once she graduated she maintained working as a full-time graphic designer, she continued designing during her free time. When she moved to Portland, Oregon, Leanne began to participate in small fashion shows there, creating her own label “LEANIMAL”. In 2008 she decided to participate in Project Runway’s Season 5, were she became the winner that year. Leanne is inspired by nature, architecture and modern silhouettes, nevertheless, almost all of her pieces are easy to wear. Leanne has dressed many celebrities, among Paula Abdul, jury of the popular American Idol, who wore a beautiful pink dress to the auditions of “The X Factor”, directed by Simon Caldwell, who produces the new American version of the show, seeking singing talents from the whole world. Marshall will be showing her creations in a fashion show during FASHION WEEK PANAMA 2011, set to be happening the 14th, 15th and 16th of July. The tickets are already on sale at the offices of Physical Models and at the nonprofit organizations that will be benefited from this mega fashion production considered to be the largest and most important of Central America.